Dreßel
surname · Latin script
Dreßel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 170Kas Dressel
- DKDenmark1 in 217Kas Dressel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dreßel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 104K (inferred from the name graph)
1,953 named Dressel, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dreßel in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dressel in DE Germany, US United States, CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dreßel is found
(measured from records)Dreßel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,953as Dressel | 1 in 170K | 2.5K | Dressel | 141 |
| DE Germany | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Dressel | 127 |
| BR Brazil | 168as Dressel | 1 in 1.3M | 168 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 30as Dressel | 1 in 1.5M | 30 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 27as Dressel | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24as Dressel | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 15as Dressel | 1 in 560K | 15 | Dressel | 5 |
1,953 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Horst Dreßelb. 1931DEGerman publisher
- Heidemarie Dreßelb. 1943DEGerman sculptor
- Werner Dreßelb. 1958DEGerman association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dreßel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Dressel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dreßel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,953 people named Dressel in 2010, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dreßel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dre%C3%9FelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dreßel” — ranked 12133rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.